A PLAQUE celebrating Sir Richard Owen, inventor of the word ‘dinosaur’, will be unveiled at Lancaster Royal Grammar School later this month.
Sir Richard attended the School from 1809 to 1819 and went on to found the Natural History Museum. The Society of Biology is installing the plaque as part of a new series of 10 blue plaques around the UK celebrating the eminent but sometimes unsung heroes of biology.
At the unveiling ceremony Dr David Williams, a fossil and algae researcher at the Natural History Museum, will talk about Richard Owen’s achievements.
He said: "Richard Owen was one of the finest palaeontologists to have ever lived, describing many new vertebrates for the first time, including in 1824, the first dinosaur bones, to which he gave the name Dinosauria, meaning terrible lizard in Greek."
The plaque will be unveiled on Thursday, February 26.
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